COMMON has been pretty hot lately, which suddenly made me want to talk about an old topic: If you only have a few thousand bucks, how do you make a name for yourself in crypto?

My suggestion is to study the rolling position strategy. Don’t be scared by the name—it's just risk-controlled pyramiding on floating profits. Let’s say you have $50,000 in spare cash (—note, it must be profit or idle funds. If your principal is still losing, don’t mess around )—let’s see how to operate it.

For example, when BTC is at $100,000, you use 10x leverage, but here’s the key—use isolated margin mode, and only put in 10% of your total funds as margin. That’s $5,000, which is effectively just 1x leverage. Set a 2% stop loss; even if you get stopped out, you only lose 2% of your total funds, which is $1,000.

A lot of people say futures contracts are risky and you could get liquidated easily. I don’t get it—if you use isolated margin mode, even if you do get liquidated, the worst-case scenario is you lose that $5,000 margin. How could you possibly lose everything? Those who lose it all are almost always going all-in with cross margin and high leverage.

Now, let’s talk about profits. Suppose BTC rises to $110,000, and you continue to use 10% of your total funds, with a 2% stop loss. Even if you get stopped out, your previous trade already made 8%. Where’s the risk?

Rolling positions may sound aggressive, but put simply, it’s "pyramiding on floating profits," a standard practice in futures trading. You don’t need to maintain high leverage like 5x or 10x; 2-3x is enough. The key is to pyramid on floating profits to keep your overall position at a 2-3x leverage level.

Trading mainstream coins like BTC is relatively safer, but it requires huge patience. Time is your friend, and the compounding effect of rolling positions is scary—if you succeed a few times, making hundreds of thousands or even millions isn’t a dream. Because of this, you can’t just roll positions arbitrarily; you have to look for high-certainty opportunities.

What counts as high certainty? For example, after a sharp drop, the price consolidates sideways, tests the bottom support several times and holds, then breaks upward. This type of pattern has a high probability of trending and is a good time to roll positions.

Rolling $50,000 up to $1,000,000 may sound exaggerated, but it’s doable. Or you could start with $100,000, buy spot during a market crash when retail investors are getting wiped out, make a $100,000 profit, then take $50,000 of that profit to bet with rolling positions. When a good opportunity comes, use 2-3x leverage to roll once or twice and you could double your money.

If you lose? If you lose the $50,000 profit, just use the other $50,000 and keep going. If you lose all your profits, stop and use your principal to earn new profits and try again. This method lets you keep the possibility of getting rich without taking on the risk of total loss.

It sounds simple, but executing it takes unimaginable patience and discipline. Don’t listen to the nonsense about mindlessly holding coins. Without a steady cash flow from outside trading, holding coins is just a pipe dream for retail investors. If someone is holding 100 BTC, can you really compete with that?

ETH also works with this logic—the key is to find the right timing, control your position size, and use strict stop losses.